The Humbugs of the World: Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
Autor P. T. Barnumen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mar 2012
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781108044356
ISBN-10: 1108044352
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1108044352
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Publisher's note; Introduction; Part I. Personal Reminiscences: 1. General view of the subject; 2. Definition of the word humbug; 3. Monsieur Mangin, the French humbug; 4. Old Grizzly Adams; 5. The golden pigeons; 6. The whales, the angel fish, and the golden pigeon; 7. Pease's horehound candy; 8. Brandreth's pills; Part II. The Spiritualists: 9. The Davenport brothers, their rise and progress; 10. The spirit-rapping and medium humbugs; 11. The 'Ballot-test'; 12. Spiritual 'letters on the arm'; 13. Demonstrations by 'Samson' under a table; 14. Spiritual photographing; 15. 'Banner of light'; 16. Spiritualist humbugs waking up; 17. The Davenport brothers shown up once more; Part III. Trade and Business Impositions: 18. Adulterations of food; 19. Adulteration in drinks; 20. The Peter Funks and their functions; 21. Lottery sharks; 22. Another lottery humbug; 23. A California coal mine; Part IV. Money Manias: 24. The petroleum humbug; 25. The tulipomania; 26. John Bull's great money humbug; 27. Business humbugs; Part V. Medicine and Quacks: 28. Doctors and imagination; 29. The consumptive remedy; 30. Monsignore Cristoforo Rischi, or Il Créso, the nostrum-vendor of Florence; Part VI. Hoaxes: 31. The Twenty-seventh-street ghost; 32. The moon hoax; 33. The miscegenation hoax; Part VII. Ghosts and Witchcrafts: 34. Haunted houses; 35. Haunted houses; 36. Magical humbugs; 37. Witchcraft; 38. Charms and incantations; Part VIII. Adventurers: 39. The Princess Cariboo, or, the Queen of the Isles; 40. Count Cagliostro, alias Joseph Balsamo, known also as 'Cursed Joe'; 41. The diamond necklace; 42. The Count de St Germain: sage, prophet, and magician; 43. Riza Bey, the Persian envoy to Louis XIV; Part IX. Religous Humbugs: 44. Diamond cut diamond, or, Yankee superstitions; 45. A religious humbug on John Bull; 46. The first humbug in the world; 47. Heathen humbugs; 48. Modern heathen humbugs; 49. Ordeals.
Descriere
Originally published in 1866, this book explores somes of the most bizarre hoaxes, adverts and scams of the nineteenth century.
Notă biografică
The American showman, businessman, and politician Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891) is best known for his promotion of well-known hoaxes and for co-founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871-2017) with James Anthony Bailey. Although he declared himself: "I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me," he was also a novelist, publisher, and philanthropist. His personal objective, according to his detractors, was "to fill his own coffers with cash." The proverb "There's a sucker born every minute" is often attributed to him, despite the lack of any documentation to support this. Before relocating to New York City in 1834, Barnum launched a weekly newspaper in his early twenties and started a small business. He began his career in show business by joining "Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theater," a variety troupe, and shortly after that, he bought Scudder's American Museum, which he renamed after himself. He promoted hoaxes and human oddities like the Fiji mermaid and General Tom Thumb using the museum as a platform.